PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	64	36	58
Rank change year-on-year	-28	+22	+16
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell	8	47	37
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh	0.67%	6.15%	2.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category	5.84%	18.65%	7.72%
Number of salaries quoted	5	5	19
10^th Percentile	-	£71,750	£42,500
25^th Percentile	£47,500	£72,500	£47,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£90,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	-44.44%	+63.64%	-15.84%
75^th Percentile	£53,750	-	£81,250
90^th Percentile	£56,750	-	£85,000
Scotland median annual salary	£52,500	£47,500	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+10.53%	-9.52%	-4.55%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	137	252	479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh	11.43%	32.98%	38.23%
Number of salaries quoted	97	106	245
10^th Percentile	-	£25,750	£37,500
25^th Percentile	£45,000	£37,750	£46,713
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£63,451	£51,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+24.41%	-15.00%	-4.00%
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£77,688	£72,500
90^th Percentile	£91,600	£92,500	£80,000
Scotland median annual salary	£60,000	£55,000	£55,000
% change year-on-year	+9.09%	-	-4.35%

PowerShell Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

PowerShell Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, job vacancies citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region with a requirement for PowerShell.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	8
2	Microsoft	87.5%	7
2	Microsoft 365	87.5%	7
4	Collaborative Culture	62.5%	5
4	Microsoft Certification	62.5%	5
4	Microsoft Exchange	62.5%	5
4	SharePoint	62.5%	5
8	Microsoft Intune	50.0%	4
9	Azure Certification	37.5%	3
9	Cisco	37.5%	3
9	Disaster Recovery	37.5%	3
9	Employee Productivity	37.5%	3
9	Entra ID	37.5%	3
9	Meraki	37.5%	3
9	Microsoft Copilot	37.5%	3
9	Microsoft Graph	37.5%	3
9	OneDrive	37.5%	3
9	Power Automate	37.5%	3
9	Power Platform	37.5%	3
9	SaaS	37.5%	3
9	Task Automation	37.5%	3
9	Windows	37.5%	3
23	Azure Sentinel	25.0%	2
23	Broadband	25.0%	2
23	Client Onboarding	25.0%	2
23	Continuous Improvement	25.0%	2
23	DNS	25.0%	2
23	Infrastructure Engineering	25.0%	2
23	ITIL	25.0%	2
23	Mentoring	25.0%	2

PowerShell Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Bash	12.5%	1
1	C#	12.5%	1
1	Java	12.5%	1
1	Python	12.5%	1